Word: unpopularities
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...returning French began negotiations with the Viet Minh leader. There were polite hints that Bao Dai must go-he was too "unpopular." Bao abdicated, and Ho was in the saddle...
...personal life," he keeps repeating, "is nobody's business but my own." His passion for privacy is one of the things that has made him unpopular with gossip-hungry sportwriters and fans. It has also helped conceal an extremely generous nature. On the road he is known to waiters and bellhops as a "buck-tipper" and a soft touch. He divided $1,000 of his 1946 World Series check among the clubhouse helpers. He sends his mother upwards of $7,000 a year, likes to visit shut-in children in hospitals, provided there are no reporters around...
...down further to $13 billion and had taken most of the credit for the economizing. When Johnson was booed for hacking off military muscle, he had pointed an innocent finger at Ike, insinuating that the whole idea had been Ike's. In fact, the various versions of the unpopular 1951 defense budget, said Johnson, had been known affectionately around the Pentagon...
...South Carolina frontier farm, became the greatest spokesman the slave-owning aristocracy ever had. He loved the Union with a choked, subterranean passion, but his arguments led fatefully to secession and Fort Sumter. Desperately he yearned for the presidency, but he took such an uncompromising stand on so many unpopular and often sectional issues that he seemed consciously to be disqualifying himself for the big prize...
...Negro band, then starts to pour his soul into a pawnshop horn. Grown up into a hot trumpet man under the tutelage of the Negro bandleader (Juano Hernandez), he knocks around gin mills and boardinghouses in the sleazy insecurity which hounds all small-time musicians devoted to an unpopular cult. But just when Trumpeter Douglas begins to approach the'top, the film starts on its way down...